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Author: bob
Date: 2002-12-19 19:42
what is the best way to learn how to play klezmer clarinet?
also, are there any differences in the reed or instrument for playing in this style?
thanks so much!!!
-bob
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Author: GBK
Date: 2002-12-19 19:49
bob...There is a separate bulletin board devoted to Klezmer which may have many of the answers and discussion you seek.
Click on The Klezmorim Forum on the top of this page, or use the drop down menu...GBK
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Author: Mark Sloss
Date: 2002-12-19 20:07
Get chased around the shtetl by a Cossack on a horse with your clarinet tucked under your arm.
Seriously, the Forum is a good resource, but most importantly, listen and understand. It isn't just modal scales and smeared notes. You need to internalize the genre just like jazz. Lots of great recordings and some really top-notch groups performing live these days.
Have fun with it.
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Author: Brenda Siewert
Date: 2002-12-23 20:28
I've played lots of klezmer with lots of different brands and types of clarinets. Mouthpieces are a matter of preference--but lots of klezies use jazz type mouthpieces. I use a Greg Smith Grenadilla wood mouthpiece regardless of types of music. But, when I was selling clarinet stuff all the time I had several klezemer customers who used Vandoren 5JB--the jazz mouthpiece. The reason is for the bending of tone in some of the notes required in klezmer.
The best way to learn is to play with a group. I learned to play by ear with a group that "jammed" together each week. It was much later that I played written music with an orchestra in Israel. What a treat! It is a wonderful style of music.
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Author: Joris van den Berg
Date: 2002-12-24 01:21
Try to sing the song on your instrument (including the pronouncation of the text, and the accompaning emotions)
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